The Song of the Plug
high in the faint moonlight, wildgeese are soaring
tartar chieftains are fleeing through the dark
and we chase them, with horses lightly burdened
and a burden of snow on our bows and our swords
[Notes]
1. The Song of the Plug: an ancient military song of the frontier fortress.
2. Moonlight: There is no moonlight.
3. Chanyu (chán yú): the leader of the Huns. This refers to the supreme commander of the invaders.
4. escape: escape.
5. will: lead.
6. Qingqi: Light and fast cavalry.
7. step by step: catch up.
Translation
On a quiet night, the geese fly very high,
Khan takes advantage of the night to flee quietly.
I was about to lead the light cavalry to catch up, when
heavy snow fell all over me.
Lu Lun
the woods are black and a wind assails the grasses, yet the general tries night archery.
and next morning he finds his white-plumed arrow, pointed deep in the hard rock.
translation
In the dark forest, the grass suddenly swayed and rustled by the wind. The general thought that the beast was coming, so he quickly drew his bow and shot an arrow.
I went to look for the arrow at dawn, and I was deeply immersed in the stone edge.
the song
Lu Lun
his golden arrow is tipped with hawk's feathers, his embroidered silk flag has a tail like a swallow.
one man, arising, gives a new order, a thousand battalions shout.
translation
The general wore an arrow made of the feathers of a vulture, and the flag embroidered in the shape of a swallow-tail fluttered in the wind.
Stand tall and announce a new order, and the soldiers of the Thousand Battalions responded together.
(1) Li Yi's
Four songs of the plug (1)
Fanzhou tribes can end and hunt the Yellow River songs day and night.
the songs of Yan are still flying, and the herd of horses is green.
(2) Wang Changling's "The Plug? Second,
drink, my horse, while we cross the autumn water! and the stream is cold and the wind like a sword.
as we watch against the sunset on the sandy plain, far, far away, shadowy Lintao.
old battles, waged by those long walls, once were proud on all men's tongues.
but antiquity now is a yellow dust, confusing in the grasses its ruins and white bones.
(3) March from the army
Wang Changling
Qinghai Changyun Dark Snow Mountain,
Lonely city overlooking Yumenguan.
Yellow sand wears golden armor in many battles,
If you don't break Loulan, you won't return it.
(4) Liangzhou Ci
(Tang) William Wang
luminous glass of grape wine,
urge you to drink pipa immediately.
You don't laugh when you are drunk on the battlefield.
How many times have you fought in ancient times?
(5) Gu joined the army
Li Qi
through the bright day up the mountain, we scan the sky for a war-torch, at yellow dusk we water our horses in the boundaryriver.
and when the throb of watch-drums hangs in the sandy wind, we hear the guitar of the Chinese Princess telling her endless woe.
camping in Wan Li, till the heavy sky joins the wide desert in snow.
with their plaintive calls, barbarian wildgeese fly from night to night, and children of the Tartars have many tears to shed.
but we hear that the Jade Pass is still under siege, and soon we stake our lives upon our light warchariots.
each year we bury in the desert bones unnumbered, I have seen Pu Tao enter the Han family.
(6) Guan Shanyue
Li Bai
the bright moon lifts from the Mountain of Heaven, in an infinite haze of cloud and sea.
and the wind, that has come a thousand miles, beats at the Jade Pass battlements.
china marches its men down Baideng Road, while Tartar troops peer across blue waters of the bay.
and since not one battle famous in history sent all its fighters back again.
Garrison the border town, and think of home, with wistful eyes.
and of those tonight in the upper chambers, who toss and sigh and cannot rest.
(7) Li Bai's
In May, there was snow in Tianshan Mountain, and there were no flowers but cold.
I smell the willow in the flute, but I haven't seen the spring scenery.
follow the golden drum at dawn and hug the jade saddle at night.
I'm willing to cut Loulan with my sword at my waist.
(8) Yan Gexing
Gao Shi
the northeastern border of China was dark with smoke and dust, to repel the savage invaders, our generals, leaving their families.
strode forth together, looking as heroes should look, and having received from the Emperor his most gracious favour.
they marched to the beat of gong and drum through the Elm Pass, they circled the Stone Tablet with a line of waving flags.
till their captains over the Sea of Sand were twanging feathered orders, the Tartar chieftain's hunting-fires glimmered along Wolf Mountain.
and heights and rivers were cold and bleak there at the outer border, but soon the barbarians' horses were plunging through wind and rain.
half of our men at the front were killed, but the other half are living, and still at the camp beautiful girls dance for them and sing!
The desert is full of grass in autumn, the few surviving watchers by the lonely wall at sunset.
You should always underestimate your enemy, and yet, for all that they have done, Elm Pass is still unsafe.
still at the front, iron armour is worn and battered thin, Yumi should say goodbye.
still in this southern city young wives' hearts are breaking, while soldiers at the northern border vainly look toward home.
the fury of the wind cuts our men's advance, in a place of death and blue void, with nothingness ahead!
three times a day a cloud of slaughter rises over the camp, and all night long the hour-drums shake their chilly booming.
until white swords can be seen again, spattered with red blood, when death becomes a duty, who stops to think of fame?
yet in speaking of the rigours of warfare on the desert, we name to this day Li, the great General, who lived long ago!
(9) The song "Sai Xia" is often built.
Looking back at the emperor's hometown, Wusun is not king when he returns.
there is no battle in a quiet place at the end of the world, and the sales of soldiers are like the sun and the moonlight.
Looking at the Jimen
Zuyong
Looking at the Yantai, the guests are frightened, and the drums are loud and the Han will camp.
in an endless cold light of massive snow, tall flags on three borders rise up like a dawn.
Hu Yue and mountain-clouds like chairmen bear the Great Wall from the sea are even on the battlefield.
though no youthful clerk meant to be a great general I throw aside my writing-brush, like the student who tossed off cap for a lariat I challenge what may come.
Nine pieces of forward tackle (choose one)
Du Fu
Bow should be used as strength, and arrow should be used as length.
shoot the horse first, and catch the thief first.
Killing people is limited, and countries have their own borders.
if we can control the invasion of the mausoleum, we will kill more people.
It's early autumn in the military city
Strict martial arts
Last night, the autumn wind entered the Han Pass, and
the moon was full in the western hills near the new moon.
it's even more urgent to urge the flying generals to chase after the arrogant people.
Don't send a horse back to the battlefield.
on hearing a flute at night from the wall of shouxiang
Li Yi
The sand is like snow in front of Huile Peak,
The moon outside the city is like frost.
I don't know where to play the reed pipe.
I want to recruit people all night.
complain about people
Liu Zhongyong
Jin He Fu Yu Guan,
Ma Ce and Dao Huan in the DPRK.
In the third spring, the white snow returns to Qingzhong,
The Yellow River in Wan Li goes around Montenegro.
yanmen taishouxing
Li he
dark clouds are pressing the city to destroy, and the light is spreading to the sun.
The horn sounds all over the sky in autumn, and rouge is stuffed to coagulate the night purple.
half a roll of red flag is in the water, and the frost is heavy and cold.
I'd like to express my gratitude to you on the golden platform, and take Yulong to your death.
Long Xi Xing
Chen Tao
vowed to sweep away the Huns regardless of their health,
5, sable brocade mourned Hu Chen.
Poor bones by the river,
I'm still a dream girl.
Cao Song
Zeguo Jiangshan entered the war map,
He Ji Le Qiao Su was born.
if you don't say anything, you can seal the Hou's affairs, and
if you succeed, you will lose all your bones.
Appreciation of Frontier Poems
* on meeting a messenger to the capital Author: Cen Can
There is a long way to go in the east of my hometown, but I don't want to cry. Meet you at once, without pen and paper, please tell my family that I am safe.
"The Song of the Plug" is high and comfortable
End the floating clouds and join the army. And with the anger of the son of heaven, I will rely on the generals.
a thousand drums and thunders, and a thousand flags and fires generate wind. The sun wheel is stationed in the frost, and the moon is hanging with a bow.
the clouds are turning in Qinghai, and the soldiers in Montenegro are rushing. The war is too high and too high, and the head is empty after the war.
Wan Li was willing to die, but once he succeeded. Draw a picture of Qilin Pavilion and enter the Mingguang Palace.
Laugh at the scribes, once you are poor. The ancients were ignorant of this way and often became old men.
being on the fortress is "high-quality"
going east to Lulong fortress, you are so noble and lonely. Pavilion column Wan Li, han soldiers still prepare hu.
the dust rises in the north, and Lu rides in the south. Is it a long-term strategy to turn the bucket, and it is not a long-term plan.
Only yesterday, General Li left the imperial capital according to the festival. General Rong swept the desert and captured Khan in the first world war.
always be grateful and willing to help others. Who wants to talk by leaning on the sword, and the river is empty.
The moon was closed in Wang Changling in the Tang Dynasty and in the Han Dynasty, but the Long March was not returned. If the attack on the dragon city of Wei Qing and flying general Li guang are alive today, the Huns will not be allowed to go south to spend their horses in Yinshan.